Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | My Quaker Grandmothers | | Oliver Huckel (1864–1940) |
| | | LIKE two little doves in gray | |
| On the boughs of a greenwood tree, | |
| My two Quaker grandmothers sit | |
| In my gay genealogy. | |
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| The Cavalier struts in my heart, | 5 |
| The Puritan tugs at my will, | |
| But the Quaker faces say “Peace,” | |
| And passion and pride are still. | |
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| Dear faces of infinite calm, | |
| Ye have wrought a spell in my blood | 10 |
| That maketh the world seem wise | |
| And sweet with the sunshine of God. | | | | |
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